Dinner Diary

Green Salad with Turkey, Blue Cheese and Grapes

If you look closely at this picture, you can see a couple of blue cheese crumbles in there. This blue cheese was powerful stuff, so I balanced its pungency with lots of cubed deli turkey, crisp green leaf lettuce and sweet grapes. Of all those ingredients, I think the sweetness of the grapes goes the farthest to temper the cheese (which is delicious, by the way, especially if you can pair it right).

I am not much of a salad girl, so I wrapped this up in a tortilla, but my husband ate it as-is and said it was a pretty good salad with a little bit of dressing. It made a good sandwich, too, bound with a little bit of mayonnaise.

I used to buy the prewashed lettuce in the clamshells, but these days they're about 3 times as costly as the local, unwashed stuff. So I've dusted off my salad spinner. For the turkey, I asked the woman working at the deli counter for a thick slice of their store-roasted turkey and explained to her that I wanted to cut it into cubes. Cubed the turkey, tore up then washed the lettuce, halved the grapes and crumbled the blue cheese, then tossed it all together.

About The Author

Kim Walker

Kim Walker began writing a personal food blog in 2003 while working as a copy editor in New York City. After leaving her office job to stay home with her newborn son in 2004, her cooking style (and her life, of course) changed. She now lives in the Bay Area with her three picky eaters: one husband and two children, ages 3 and 7.

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